Haworth Tompkins have completed a major restoration of the Grade I listed Theatre Royal Drury Lane, one of the world’s most important theatres

Drury Lane encapsulates the history of British theatre, Benjamin Dean Wyatt’s 1812 building being only the latest incarnation of a continuous theatrical presence on the site since 1663.

A central part of the project vision was to reveal and restore Wyatt’s foyers and staircase – arguably the most impressive Georgian sequence of public interior spaces in existence – and to democratise the previously segregated circulation into the auditorium.